Voyage to the City of the Dead

Voyage to the City of the Dead

Author	Alan Dean Foster
Cover artist	Karel Thole
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Humanx Commonwealth
Genre	Science fiction novel
Publisher	Del Rey Books
Publication date	July, 1984
Media type	Print (paperback)
ISBN	0-345-31215-5

Voyage to the City of the Dead (1984) is a science fiction novel written by Alan Dean Foster.

Plot

Scientists Eitienne and Lyra Redowl come to the planet Horseye to study the entire length the immense Skar River and its spectacular river chasm, the largest in the whole Humanx Commonwealth. On Horseye there are three separate sentient species, which all have different concerns about their planet. The Mai, traders from the river delta, are prepared to help the Redowls, but had their own agenda for doing so, for it was rumoured that at the head of the river was the City of the Dead and a great treasure.

This treasure is eventually revealed to be not be material wealth, but an ancient artifact that is used to monitor the depths of space for an approaching evil.

External links

Voyage to the City of the Dead title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Alan Dean Foster homepage

Foster's Humanx Commonwealth novels

Stand alone novels	Midworld Cachalot Nor Crystal Tears Voyage to the City of the Dead Sentenced to Prism The Howling Stones Drowning World Quofum

Pip and Flinx	For Love of Mother-Not The Tar-Aiym Krang Orphan Star The End of the Matter Flinx in Flux Mid-Flinx Reunion Flinx's Folly Sliding Scales Running from the Deity Bloodhype Trouble Magnet Patrimony Flinx Transcendent

Founding of the Commonwealth	Phylogenesis Dirge Diuturnity's Dawn

The Icerigger Trilogy	Icerigger Mission to Moulokin The Deluge Drivers

The Humanx Commonwealth

Races	AAnn Human Hur'rikku Minidragon Tar-Aiym Thranx Ulru-Ujurrians

Planets	Annubis Blasusarr Cachalot Midworld Terra Ulru-Ujurr

Characters	Flinx Bran Tse-Mallory Truzenzuzex Mahnahmi Lynx Clarity Held

Other	Bloodhype Meliorare Society Order of Null Qwarm

List	List of Humanx Commonwealth characters List of Humanx Commonwealth planets List of Humanx Commonwealth races

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